The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON,
The Weekly Discourse of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher
Subject: "xvoman's Specific
Rights.

~ Suionioii> py one STROKE, set forth the
imperial character of q true Christian woman
She is not slave, not hireling, not a snb
oiuihate, nut queen; and in my text Solo
anon sees sixty of these helping to make ur
the royal pageant of Jesus. In former sol.
tnoa showed You that crown and courtly
aeeehaants and imperial wardrobe were not
necessary to make queen: but that praces
OF The heart and life will give coronation 10
any woman, showed you at some length
that womans position was higher in the world
,han mans, and that although she had often
Jseh denied the right of suffrage, she always
,'iu Vete and always would vote by her influ-
etce; and that her chief desire ought TO ha
that she should have grace rightly to rule in
,ne DOMINION which she has already won,
ocSan an enumeration of some of her rights,
"iiu 'al morning resume the subject
n the iirst place, woman has the special
allu the superlative right-not again going
Puck 10 what | have already sad-woman
has thespecial and superlatiye right of bless
ing and comforting the sick
n s iand, what street, what house has
not lett the smitings of disease' Tens of
thousands OF sick bedsl What shall we do
WIN thems Shall man. with his rough hand
a'iH clumsy loot, go stumbling around the
nerves and alleviate the pains of the tossing
puv,ent' Inc young man at college may
scoii al the idea of being under maternal in
nuences, nut at the first blast of the typhoid
IeVer on his cheek he says: Where is
Ino.her' Waiter Scott wrote partly in
sasite ans parly in compliment when he said:
Owonan, in our hours OF ease,
InocrtHin, coy and hard to please
When pam and anguish wiring the brow,
minstering angel thou.
think the most pathetic passage in all the
Bible is the description of the lad who went
out to the harvest field of Shunem and got
MISUNDERSTANDING his hands on his temples
ana crying out; "Oh, my head my head !"
and they said Garry him to his mother ~
And then the record is: "Hs sat on her knees
I'll noon, and then died" 1t is an awful
thing to be i'll away from home in a strange
motel, once In while men coming in to look
at you, holding their hand over their mouth
Tor fear they will catch the contagion. How
roughly they turn you in bed. How loudly
they talk. How you long for the ministries
OF ho!he. l knew one such who went away
from one of the brightest of homes for
5-Vefa! weeks business absence at the West.
"A te egram came at midnight that he was
on his death bed, far away from home By
express train the wife and daughters went
westward; but they went too late. He feared
not to die, but he was i'll agony to live until
his family got there. He tried to bride
the doctor to make him live little
while longer He said: 81 am willing to die
but not alone" But the pulses fluttered, the
eyes closed, and the heart stopped. The ex-
press trains met i'll the midnight; wife and
daughters going westward-hfeless remains
OF husband and father coming eastward. O,
1t was sad, pitiful, overwhelming
spectacle! When we are sick we want
to be back at home. When the
time comes for us to die, we want to
die at home The room may be very
humble, and the faces that look into
ours may he very plain; but who cares for
that: Loving hands to battle the temples.
Loving voices to speak good cheer Loving
lips to read the comforting promises of Jesus
In our last dreadful war men cast the cam
non; men fashioned the musketry: men cried
to the hosts: Forward, march!d men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges of the
enemy. crying: Charge! charger but woman
scraped the lint woman administered the
coru1als; woman watched by the dying
couch; woman wrote the last message to the
nome circle; woman wept at the solitary
burial attended by herself and four men with
spade. We greeted the general home
with brass bands, and triumphal arches,
ant wild huzzas; but the story is too good to
DE written anywhere, save in the chronicles
of heaven, Of Mrs. Brady, who came down
among the SICK in the swamps of the Chicha-
hominy; of Annie Ross. in the COOPER shop
hospital; of Margaret Breckenridge, who came
TO men who had been for weeks with their
wounds undressed--some of them frozen to
the ground, and when she turned them over
those that had an arm left waved it and filled
the air with their ''hurrah;n OF Mrs Hodge
who came from Chicago with blankets and
with pillows, until the men shouted ''Three
cheers for the Christian Commission
then sitting down to take the last
message: Tell my wife not to fret
about me, but to meet me in heaven tell her
to train up the boys whom we have love So
well: tell her we Shall meet again in the good
land; tell her to bear my loss like the Chris
tlan wife of a Christian soldier;n and of Mrs
WHOSE fbn o.,x
soldier looked and said: "Your grapes
and cologne cured men Men did
Their work with shot and SHE'LL and carbine,
ana howltzer; women did their work with
socks, and slippers, and bandages, and warm
drinks, and Scripture texts and gentle strok-
ings OF the hot temples and stories of that
land where they never have any pain. Men
knelt down over the wounded and said: con
winch side did you fghtl' Women knelt
Gown over the wounded and said 'Where
are you hurt: What nice thing can make
Tor you to eat' What makes you cryT' To.
hlgn6 While we men are sound asleep in our
peds There will be light in yonder loft
there VIII be groaning down that dark alley
there will be cries of distress in that cellar.
Men will sleep and women will watch.
Again, woman has a superlative right to
take care of the poor. There are hundreds
and thousands of them all over the land
There is kind of work that men cannot dc
Tor the poor Here comes group of little bare
foot children to the door Of the Dorcas Socie
ty. They need to be clothed and provided for.
Which of these directors of banks would
Know how many yards it would take to make
that little girl dress? Which of these mas
cuine hands could fit hat to that little
girls head Which of the wise men
would know how to tie on new pair Of
sshoess Man sometimes gives his charity
IN rough way and it falls like the fruit
Oh tree in the east, which fruit GENES
down so heavily that it breaks the skull
oil the man who is trying to gather it. But
woman glides so softly into the house of des.
tltution, and finds out all the sorrows of the
place, and puts SO quietly the donation on the
table, that all the family come out on the
o front steps as she departs, expecting that
from under her shawl she will thrust out two
wings and go right up toward heaven, from
whence she seems to have come down
Oh, Christian young woman! if yor
would make yourself happy and wiz
the blessings of Christ, go out among
the destitute A loaf of bread or bundle Of
socks may make homely load to carry, but
the angels of God will come out to watch
and the Lord Almighty will give his mes
senger hosts charge, saying: Look aftel
that woman. Canopy her with your wing
and shelter her from all HARM" and Will,
you are seated in the house of restitution anC
suffering, the little ones around the room
will whisper: '.Who is she? Amt she beau
tlful.' and if you will listen right sharply yol
will hear dripping down through the leak,
roof, and rolling over the rotten stairs, tn
angel chant that shook Bethlehem: "Glor,
to God in the highest, and on eartl
peace, good will to men," Can you tel
me why a Christian woman going dow
among the haunts of iniquity on a Christian
errand never meets with any indignity?
stood in the chapel of Helen Chalmers, tn
daughter of the celebrated DR.. Chalmers, il
the most abandoned part of the cit,
of Edinburgh, and l said to her a
l looked out upon the fearful surround
ings of that place: DO you come her
nights to hold servicen' 80, yes,
she said. "Can it be possible that yo
never meet with an insult while performing
this Christian errand 2" Never she said
never" That young woman who has he
father by her side walking down the street
an armed police at each corner, is not s.
well defended as that Christian woman VIII
goes forth on gospel work into the haunts o
lniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread. God
with the red right arm of his wrath omnipo
tent, would tear to pieces any one who shou
offer indignity. He would smte him wit
lghtnings, and drown him with floods, an,
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